Huave of Santa María del Mar

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Huave of Santa María del Mar is a variety of the Huave language spoken by the indigenous Huave community in the coastal town of Santa María del Mar in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Huave language variety
indigenous language variety
language variety
associatedWithMunicipality Santa María del Mar, Oaxaca
associatedWithPeople Huave community of Santa María del Mar
belongsTo Mesoamerican linguistic area
continent North America
country Mexico
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Huave
hasAlternativeName Huave de Santa María del Mar
Ombeayiüts (local autonym, variety of)
Santa María del Mar Huave
hasCulturalRole marker of Huave identity in Santa María del Mar
hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of San Dionisio del Mar
Huave of San Francisco del Mar
Huave of San Mateo del Mar
hasDomain coastal fishing communities
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Spanish
hasLinguisticFeature Mesoamerican areal traits
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticSituation intergenerational transmission weakening
indigenousTo Mexico
Oaxaca
isolateWithin Huave language family
languageFamily Huave
languageFamilyStatus language isolate
languageStatus endangered language
morphologicalType agglutinative language
partOf Huave language continuum
primaryWordOrder verb–subject–object
region Isthmus of Tehuantepec
spokenBy Huave people
spokenIn Mexico
Oaxaca
Santa María del Mar
subdivisionOf Huave language
subjectTo language shift to Spanish
usedAlongside Spanish
usedFor oral tradition
ritual practices
usedIn everyday communication within the Huave community of Santa María del Mar
usedInEducation limited bilingual education and literacy efforts
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Huave of Santa María del Mar
Huave of San Mateo del Mar hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of Santa María del Mar
Huave of Santa María del Mar hasAlternativeName Huave de Santa María del Mar
linked to: Huave of Santa María del Mar
Huave of San Francisco del Mar hasDialect Huave of Santa María del Mar